[Drawings of monastic seals].
Bartholomew Howlett (Louth 1767 – Newington 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1821 - 1827
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085298
Summary
Bibliographic description
16 v. : all ill. ; fol. Pencil notes on front free endpaper of vol. 1: "16 vols £190" and (in a different hand): "In 1860 £190 / realized at a London Auction / Sotheby". Pencil note in another hand on second front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "298 / 16 vols £190". Pencil note on third front free endpaper of vol. 9: "Northumberland". Pencil note at foot of leaf [3] in vol. 16: "not in Cat." Pencil numbers on folios in vols. 2, 5-16 (those in vols. 2, 9 and 16 trimmed in binding). Additional pencil numbers on final two drawings in vol. 10. Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 14: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set, price £50. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] (not present in vol. 2). Binding: Nineteenth-century full green morocco; gilt fillets and roll to form an outer border; recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spines; red spine labels on vols. 1-15: 'Drawings of monastic seals.' and '1[-15].'; red spine label on vol. 16: 'Nottinghams illustratio / Drawings of ancient seals'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Bound by J. Mackenzie' (not present in vol. 2).
Makers and roles
Bartholomew Howlett (Louth 1767 – Newington 1827), artist